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Number 69: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1951
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Sportsmanship Trophy Winners
SMU Wins Second
S W C Sportsmanship
Trophy in Dallas
Southern Methodist University became the first school to
repeat in winning the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship
Award when they accepted the large, golden trophy before
the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas Monday.
The Mustang student body was voted the award in a
poll of representatives of all the conference schools and of
conference officials. The Dallas school first won the trophy
when it was instituted in 1948.
Runner-up for the award was TCU, closely followed by
third-place Rice Institute. A&M placed fourth in the voting,
one step ahead of its fifth-place position of last year.
Other conference schools as they finished in the voting
were Baylor, fifth; Texas, sixth; and Arkansas, last.
The winner of this years award was decided when the
votes were tabluated at a meeting of the Southwest Sports
manship Committee in Dallas last" h
Herbert C. Retry, Jr.
President of The International
Association of Lions Clubs,
Petry, a Carrizo Springs, Texas
man, will present the College
Station Lions Club with their
charter Monday night at the
club’s charter night banquet. The
affair is scheduled for the Me
morial Student Center Ball Room
at 6:45 p.m.
Winner of the Southwest Conference Sportsman
ship award was Southern Methodist University.
Representing the Dallas school are a portion of
(he group above, the first two of whom are un
identified SMU students; Head Cheer Leader
Marc Moore; President of the Students B. C.
Goodwin, holding the trophy; Editor of The SMU
Campus Ardis Vancleave, and Frank N. Manit-
zas, Battalion Sports Editor. Goodwin holds the
trophy presented annually by the committee, and
Manitzas holds the plaque which this year goes to
Rice Institute for having won the trophy last
year.
Utilities
$200,000 Bond
Vote Monday
College Station voters will
be faced with accepting or re
jecting a bond issue of $200,-
!)00 when polls open Monday
morning for the bond issue
balloting.
If the bond issue is passed, the
money from the bonds will be ear
marked for electrical, sewer, and
water expansion within the city,
although only $60,000 is planned to
be used immediately if the citizens
of College Station approve the is
sue, city officials said.
College Station city officials say
that all indications point to an
overwhelming approval of the bond
issue since no tax money will be
used to pay the bonds off. Only
revenue from water and sewer in
come of the city will be used for
the bond payments, according to a
City Council ruling.
City officials also pointed out
no further bond issuances can be
made against the water and sewer
revenue if the election passes.
The money is to be divided with
$70,000 for electrical expansion,
$20,000 for water extension and
water mains, and $110,000 to go
for the eventual construction of a
sewage disposal plant.
The ballots will provide spaces
for the voters to approve each
amount separately, allowing the
approval or rejection of one part
without casting a negative vote
toward the whole bond issue.
Confident Governors Bet
Brazos and Tennessee Hill
The Brazos ,River longer belongs to Texas after the
Cotton Bowl game Jan. 1.
Governor Allan Shivers bet the river, made famous by
A&M, against Tennessee’s Lookout Mountain. Spokesman
for Tennessee was Governor Gordon Browning.
The two heads of states made the bet on the outcome
of the Cotton Bowl classic.
About the bet the Tennessee governor said “Mr. Shiv
ers first tried to bet me some dinky little hill out in West
Texas called Sawtooth Mountain. Sawtooth wouldn’t make
a wart on a real Tennessee mountain. I understand there’s
not much water in the Brazos right now, so it won’t be too
much trouble to move it to Tennessee.’'
After the Vols marched over Texas to the tune of 14-20
Governor Browning triumphantly claimed the river. He de
clined! to say when the River would be moved.
Saturday. B. C. Goodwin, president
of the SMU Student Body, accept
ed the award from TU Cheerleader
Mac Bentliff, retiring chairman of
the committee.
Pre-Game Ceremonies
In the pre-game ceremonies, The
Battalion, Sports Editor Frank N.
Manitzas awarded a plaque to Rice
Institute, last year’s holder of the
trophy. The Battalion, which insti
tuted the Sportsmanship Award in
1948, annually awards a plaque to
the previous holder of the award.
Meeting in Perkins Hall On the
SMU campus, the sportsmanship
committee discussed achievements
during the football season and de
cided on possible courses of action
to cope with the sportsmanship
problems arising during basketball
season.
Members decided the cause of
sportsmanship in the Southwest
Conference and the work of the
committee was decidedly under-
publicized. A committee was ap
pointed to handle publicity mat
ters.
Newsletter Discontinued
Elms Leaves For
Washington Post
Grady Elms, assistant manager
of student activities, has resigned
his position to accept federal em
ployment.
His resignation was tendered
during the holidays and he is now
in Washington, D. C. where he
plans to move his family in the
near future. Elm’s address, effec
tive Jan. 15, will be Apartment
2, 702 South Arlington, Mill Drive,
Arlington, 4, Va.
Elms came to the Student Ac
tivities office September, 1941,
and left for service in July, 1942.
While in the army he moved
from the rank of private to
captain.
He returned to student activities
in May, 1946 as assistant mana
ger, where he remained until his
resignation.
Elms was in charge of the club
program for the student body and
also arranged for dances and other
social events on the campus. The
club program has been instrumen
tal in bringing prospective stu
dents to visit the A&M campus.
Elms has been associated with
A&M since 1941, but he and his
wife have lived in College Station
since 1938. He served as coach of
athletics at Consolidated High
School and the following year was
(See ELMS, Page 2)
The committee also voted to dis
continue a conference newsletter
until fall. Such a letter has been
attempted by the committee and
has met with little cooperation.
At the i suggestion of the A&M
delegation, members also decided to
postpone election of,officers uptil
the Spring meeting, scheduled to
be held here on the week-end of
the conference track meet. B. C.
Goodwin of SMU was appointed
temporary chairman of the group
to replace Mac Bentliff of TU who
is volunteering for military ser
vice.
The committee is composed of
three delegates from each confer
ence school—the student body pres
ident (or president of the student
senate), the editor of the school
newspaper and the head yell lead
er. It was begun in 1948 on the
suggestion of J. K. B. Nelson, then
a co-editor of The Battalion.
Battalion Gift
The Battalion donated the large
gold trophy which goes each year
to that school showing the best
sportsmanship by its student body
during the year. Any school win
ning the trophy for three years
will be awarded permanent owner
ship.
Winners to date have been SMU
in 1948; A&M in 1949; Rice in
1950; and SMU in 1951.
Official delegates from A&M to
Saturday’s meeting were Bill
Parse, president of the Student
Senate, and Dave Coslett, co-edi
tor of The Battalion. Manitzas also
attended the meeting from A&M.
Thomas Named MSC
Assistant to Director
M. E. Thomas, former purchas-1 lower level offices with other MSC
ing agent for the Memorial Stu- Staff members. Phone calls will be
dent Center has recently been | channeled through the regular
named Assistant to the Director
of the MSC. J. Wayne Stark, di
rector, announced.
Taking his plade will be C. L.
Atmar, formerly with the Law
rence Wholesale Grocery in Bryan.
A. C. Cooper has also been added
to the MSC staff. He will serve in
the accounting department.
In his new post Thomas will act
as one of the overall supervisors in
both the business and social and
educational departments. He has
been with the MSC since 1949.
Former Soldier
Prior to his connection with the
center he was in • the Army. He
served in the Coast Artillery for
20 years. While in the army he was
assigned to the ROTC detachments
at’ A&M and Houston Schools.
Atmar’s offices will be in the
Chinese Reds
Seize Seoul,
Open Pincers
Tokyo, Jan. 4—(ZP)—Red Chinese hordes seized aban
doned, fire-gutted Seoul today and began a giant pincers
movement aimed to shove United Nations forces into the
Yellow Sea at Inchon.
It was from an amphibious landing at Inchon that the
Allies crushed most of the North Korean Red army in a vise
last September. Seoul was retaken from the Reds then and
the Korean war seemed in its final phases.
But the sheer weight of shrieking and seemingly endless
Chinese Red manpower forced Allied troops to quit the an
cient, devastated South Korean capital today.
They blew the last bridges over the frozen Han River at
noon. Nearby Kimpo Airfield was abandoned after its in
stallations went up in an awsome tower of smoke and flame.
A United Nations fleet stood off the west coast ready to
evacuate U. N. forces south anebf-
west of Seoul.
switchboard, Stark said.
The new purchasing agent has
two sons enrolled at A&M. Jerry
is a senior wildlife management
major. Dick is a sophomore arch
itecture student.
New Accountant
Cooper, who will be with the
accounting department, is a former
employee of the Charlie Cade Jr.,
automobile dealers in Bryan. While
there he served as office manager
and accountant. He also served as
Collector of Internal Revenue in
Dallas for three years before com
ing to Brazos County.
Cooper and his family live in
Bryan. His daughter, Elizabeth is
a secretary in the Management-En
gineering department. His son
David attends high school in
Bryan.
Lone Traffic Injury Mars
Student Return to Campus
A&M students made it through
the Christmas holiday period with
no serious mishap according to
latest reports from the Dean of
Men’s Office.
Only one student was reported
injured in an automobile accident.
John D. Hoy, electrical engineering-
major from Ft. Worth, notified the
college that he was in a Ft. Worth
hospital with an injured knee-cap,
the result of a traffic accident.
Unless final reports indicate
otherwise, this will mark the
second Christmas holiday period
in succession that has found no
traffic deaths reported involving
student or staff members of the
college.
Traffic safety was urged by The
Battalion during a safe-driving
campaign preceding the holiday
period of Thanksgiving and Christ
mas.
The campaign was climaxed by
the second annual Battalion Safety
Edition published on December 16.
In a letter to The Battalion, Di
rector Homer Garrison, Jr., of the
Texas Department of Public Safe
ty commended the paper for its
efforts in promoting safety among
its readers.
The first safety edition by
The Battalion in December of
1949 was National first place
in the Lumberman’s Insurance
Companies Safe-Driving Con
test.
The traffic picture for Texas and
the rest of the nation was not
nearly so heartening over the holi
day period. A total of 97 Texans
died in traffic accidents to form a
substantial portion of the nation
al auto-death toll of more than 850
persons.
Only a frightened fragment of
Seoul’s normal 1,500,000 population
remained in the ruined city. Among
the bewildered civilians unable or
unwilling to leave were lost chil
dren, wandering aimlessly. Dusty
roads to the south were choked
with military traffic and a pitiful
mass of humanity.
AP correspondent Stan Swinton
reported the order to abandon
Seoul and its defenses to the north
came as a complete surprise to al
lied frontline units. They had just
been told to hold at any cost.
He said the order was issued at
4 p.m. (2 a.m., EST) Wednesday.
A British brigade fought a suc
cessful delaying action while other
units withdrew orderly. Then an
American division took over the
rearguard action.
British Ambushed
Swinton said the British were
ambushed on Seoul’s outskirts
about midnight, but fought through
the trap. Helicopters brought out
British wounded.
Carrier, planes joined Fifth Air
Force bombers and fighters in lay
ing an explosive curtain to shield
the withdrawals.
At 4:50 p.m. Thursday (2:50
a.m., EST), the U. S. b}ighth Army
announced Seoul had been success
fully emptied of all U. N. troops..
General MacArthur’s war sum
mary called attention to the wide
flanking movement in the middle
of the peninsula. He reported an
estimated 180,000 Chinese and Ko
rean Reds were driving toward
Wonju, 55 miles southeast of Seoul.
Draft Chances
Slim for Cadets
Boatner Says
Col. H. L. Boatner, com
mandant and PMS&T, this
morning again said cadets
who are in good academic
standing have little to fear
from the draft under the present
draft law.
The commandant’s reassurance
on draft status came' on the heels
of a complaint from Col. E. H.
Keltner, commandant of Arling
ton State College, of many Texan
Draft Boards calling up ROTG
students entitled to deferments.
In this regard Col. Boatner said,
“notification of enrollment in the
senior division ROTC here has been
enough for all diaft boards wa
know about to continue to exempt
our cadets from induction. As fat
as we know, none of our students
who have notified the Military De
partment about draft dificulties
have been inducted.”
The draft law’s potional sections
provide for ROTC Students to be
deferred if they are offered con
tracts at senior colleges for addi
tional training.
Arlington’s commandant said
small town draft boards particular
ly were not recognizing these RO
TC Contracts as cause for defer
ment.
Range, Forestry
Class Makes Trip
Range and Forestry 307 class
made a field trip to the David
Crockett National Forest December
13.
R. R. Rhodes conducted his class
of twenty-five boys on a full day
observation tour of the David
Crockett National Forest, one of
the four National Forests in Texas.
Harringtons Plan
Reception Sunday
The annual New Year’s Open
House will be observed at the home
of the President M. T. -Harrington
Sunday, from 3 to 5 p. m.
This year’s open house was post
poned a week to eliminate inter
ference with other New Year’s
Day engagements.
President' and Mrs. Harrington
extend a cordial invitation to mem
bers of the college faculty and
friends of the college in the Bryan
and College Station area.
Glass in Cuffs Foils ,
Almost Perfect Crim /
Glendale, Calif.—OP) — Bee
he wore cuffs on his trousenji,.
service station attendant faces a
burglary charge. Police said he
admitted entering the station
where he is employed by means of
a pass key and taking $88. He
then broke a window with a brick
to make it appear that a burglary
was committed.
He was arrested later asleep in
his car nearby on a drank charge.
While questioning him about the
broken window, police noticed bits
of shattered glass in his pants
cuffs.
A&M’s Sweetheart—Maid of Cotton
7,000 Aggies Can't Be Wrong
Former Aggie Sweetheart
Named 1951 Maid of Cotton
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Mis* Jeannuio Holland
The Aggies views on beauty were
backed up this week by the Na
tional Cotton Council when they
selected former Aggie Sweetheart
Jeannine Holland 1951 Maid of
Cotton.
The beautiful Houston lass was
chosen the 1950 Aggie Sweetheart
and was listed in Vanity Fair in
the Aggieland ’50.
By nosing out 18 other lovely
girls Jeanine won the Cotton Maid
title—in addition to a tour of
Europe, the United States and
South America.
During these trips she will serve
as the cotton industry’s good will
ambassador.
After being informed of the
award the 21 year old Texas
dream girl said “ . . . And I’ve
never been east of St. Louis. Its
extremely wonderful.”
She will start on the tours in
February. The first stop on her
whirl-wind tour will be a trip to
New York for a new cotton ward
robe and modeling instructions.
The brown-haired, brown-eyed
senior Tessie already had some ex
perience as a fashion model. She
also had experience in dramatics in
San Jacinto High School in Hous
ton and in TCSW Musicals.
Jeannine majors in speech and
is minoring in costume designing
and clothing at TSCW.
She has been a cotton ball prin
cess and was featured in the 1948
Daedalian, TSCW yearbook, as a
sophomore beauty. Not only an out
standing beauty on the TSCW cam
pus for the last four years, Miss
Holland is a member of the Speech
Club, the Tennis Club, and the
Aquatics Club.
Last year she was selected Aggie
Sweetheart, and in the traditional
manner was presented q bouquet of
roses and a kiss by Colonel of the
Corps at that time, Doyle Avant.
Miss Holland is a Stz foot, 124
pound co-ed daughter of J. C. Hol
land, official of the Federal Land
Bank.
Her figure measurements?
“We don’t like to emphasize
those things,” said a spokesman.
•
New York, Jan, 3—CP)—Dixie
land’s Maid of Cotton is “just dy
ing to ride a subway” and go ice
skating in Central Park.
Jeannine Holland, said this yes
terday while trying to adjust her
self to being selected as America’s
1951 Maid of Cotton.
Miss Holland won an 18-state
contest over 19 other Southern
beauties last week. She arrived
last night to assemble a cotton
wardrobe she will display on a
tour of 30 American cities, Eu
rope and Latin America.
The “Sweetheart of A&M” was
serious about her tour.
She will ask farmers everywhere
to “make an all-out production of
cotton next year” to meet the war
needs. She will ask them to grow
at least 16,000,000 bales.
Then, she.will go back to Texas
State College for Women to fin
ish her studies in speech therapy
so she can devote her life to help
ing little children speak better.
Miss Holland said she got the
idea of going ice skating when she
looked out of her hotel window on
the park last night.
Miss Jeannine Holland of TSCW * o
Sweetheart, was waving at tw A&M ’ S 1949-50
Cotton Bowl who cheered her Cr , owds the
olN' y, ea » S ? a - V ' Aliss Holland wa^i^ r °j e past
<>l Cotton during the holiday nTJfJ} amed “Maid
J i Uod and as one
of her official acts, attended the Cotton Bowl
game. She will tour Europe, North America,
and South America modeling and giving lec
tures on cotton during the next 12 months.